Jeremiah 8:19
Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country! “Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is her King there no more?” Why then have they provoked me by their graven images, And their foreign vanities?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18O where is consolation for my sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
20The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, And we are not delivered.
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.
Psalms 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their king!
Isaiah 12:6Cry aloud, shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee!”
Isaiah 33:22For Jehovah is our judge; Jehovah is our lawgiver; Jehovah is our king; it is he that will save us.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →